This little known work by my favorite
psychologist provides us with a fuller understanding of how the body is
structurally (or mechanically) interconnected, along with his theory of the functional
benefits of this mechanical or "tremulatory" connectivity. To my view as a
behavioral psychologist and scientist, Swedenborg's observations constitute a new and
signficant advance in psychosomatic theory by describing the organic mechanism of
sensorimotor life. This work advances our knowledge of the following behavioral and
health related topics:

NATURAL / PHYSICAL

SPIRITUAL / MENTAL

Network

Rhythm

Biofeedback

Neural Transmission

Psychosomatic

Reception

Harmony

Tension

Mental stress

Meditation

Charity 191. When
the mind has been continually upon the stretch, at its work, it aspires to rest; and when
it rests it descends into the body, and seeks there its pleasures, correspondent to its
mental operations, which the mind chooses, according to its interior state in the viscera
of the body. The interior things of the body derive their pleasures chiefly from the
senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch, delights which are in fact drawn from
outward things, but yet insinuate themselves into the single parts of the body, which are
called members and viscera. From hence and from no other source have they their delights
and pleasures. The single fibers, and single tissues of fibers, the single capillary
vessels, and thence the common vessels, and so all the viscera in common, derive their own
delights; which a man then perceives, not singly but universally, as one common sensation.
But just as is the mind within them, from the head, such are the delights, pure or impure,
spiritual or natural, heavenly or infernal. For within, in every sensation of the body, is
the love of his will, with its affections; and the understanding makes him to perceive
their delights.

For the love of the will, with its
affections, constitutes the life of every sensation; and the perception thence of the
understanding produces the sensation. Hence come all delights and pleasures. For the body
is a connected work, and one form. Sensation communicates itself, like a force applied to
a chain with its single links;
and as a form which has been wrought together from uninterrupted links.
E. Swedenborg, Charity:191